The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-03-30
WHAT THE WORLD SAYS
OF People Whom All Newspaper Reader
Are Supposed to Know

OF People Whom All Newspaper Readers
Are Supposed to Know
The Duke of Sutherland recently bought
10000 acres of Florida land.
Two actresses are trying to get Anna Dick
inson to write plays for them.
Sunset Cox's Turkish tale is to be published
either this month or next
Sarah Bernhardt's latest pet is tiger cat,
and the tiger cat is now a fashionable beast
Col Ingersoll sas he will deliver no more
anti-religious lectures. His law practice takes
all his time,
Electrician Edison Is regarded with such
awe by the negroes in Florida that it is diff
cult to get hands to take his apparatus from
the boats.
! BARLEY Campbell's most frequent delusioa
t, is to fancy that he is Bonaparte Grant
/ commanding vast army, or a Shakespeare
or Bullver composing great play.
| Mrs Stephen B, Elkins recently presented
| a library consisting of 500 worth of books to
the town of Davis, w. Va, on condition that
| the citizens should furnish the room, which
| was promptly done.
| Miss Marie Van Zandt, the we'll known
| singer, has Sc far recovered from her stroke
| of paralysis as to be able to walk about with
the use of cane. Her complete restoration
is looked for soon.
zankoff, the Russian paid Bulgarian trail
tor, was explicitly informed by the porte that
it refused to have further dealings with him
because of his bad faith falsehoods and gem
| eral rascality.
| An eccentric woman, Mrs Lizzie H. Mon
mouth, died recently at Canterbury, N. II.
! She wrote pamphlet called Living on Half
| Dime a Day. Her circumstances were
once prosperous but when poverty came she
! shut herself up i'll chamber. from the win
| dow of which she dropped rope, in order
| that benevolent persons might attach aims
| thereto.
Craig Tqliiver, the Rowan county Ry)
| desperate, has been in Cincinnati purchasing
| dry goods to the amount of $4,000. He is
now a deputy sheriff of the county he has ter
rorized, is a peaceful and law abiding citizen
| and has successful business. He never
drinks whisky, and has given up carrying a
revolver
| Princess Sarah Winnemucca is stin success
| fully running her school at Lovelock, New
| The Piute children are said to be apt scholars
| The school house is on the ranch of Chief
Naches, and the little boys are to be taught
how to cultivate the soil The moving spirit
in these educational projects is the princess.
She has long been steadily striving for the adj
vancement of her people.
Sarah Bernhardt thus disposes of the horse
whipping incident in Rio Janeiro: "An I'M
happy, crazy woman, Nine. Noirmont, at
that time a member of my company, insulted
me, and | afterward horsewhipped her fer so
doing; that's all. OF course; in fact, why
not?' Nine Bernhardt discovered she had
eight cousins in Chill. She says she hates
Chilli, but is fond of her cousins.
Professor Edward c. Pickering, the di-
rector of the Harvard observatory, and his
son, William H. Pickering, an accomplished
specialist in autobiography, will have
charge of the scheme to establish mountain
observatory under the Boyden bequest An
experimental station will first be planted Oh
some of the great heights i'll Colorado, where
an altitude of II, 900 feet can be reached not
far from the railroads.
The mother of Gen. Lew Wallace was
Esther Test, daughter of Judge John Test, OF
Indiana. She was beautiful, refined and
loving, with the serene manner and tranquil
| spirit natural to one brought up in the society
| OF Friends. She lived but % years, and lost
to her children before her beauty faded, left
in their minds fair image of perpetual
youth. IN memory of that mother, The
gentle Esther, wife of Ben Hur, was named
Professor Ichisuko Fujiohs, graduate of I'm
perial College of Engineers, Toxic, Japan
| and s. Xashima have been in this country
| since December last investigating electrical
appliances of all kinds, with a view tc
their introduction in Japan. They are al
present IN Philadelphia. Professor Fujioka
who speaks English 1uently, says; ave
have the incandescent system in several Of
our factories, but do not use the lights fol
general Illuminating purposes. l expect t.
go back in July, and will advocate the gen
eral introduction of electricity in all it
| forms